A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

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

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.