Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

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

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.