Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.
What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.
I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.
Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.
When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself.
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.