It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

We only half live when we only half think.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.