The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.

Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.