So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.