Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.