Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?
Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.
We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
Everything bows to success, even grammar.
The clouds, – the only birds that never sleep.
God was bored by him.
All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.