Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.