The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of varietyis but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety.

It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions

For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.