To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.