One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Read Summary
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Read Summary
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. Read Summary
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Read Summary
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Read Summary
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Read Summary
Language is wine upon the lips. Read Summary
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. Read Summary
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Read Summary
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Read Summary