It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.

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

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.