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.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.