God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

All men in the abstract are just and good.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.