Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.