When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.