Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.