Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.