I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.

What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and varied applications, by extending it and deploying it. It is not words that they contribute: what they do is enrich their words, deepen their meanings and tie down their usage; they teach it unaccustomed rhythms, prudently though and with ingenuity.