The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!