There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.
God, he whom everyone knows, by name.