A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.

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.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.