Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

There are no rules for felicity.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.