To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

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

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.