I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.