I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.