Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane.

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.