And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.
The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.