Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

At times I think and at times I am.