You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.