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.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

Fame is a constant effort

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.