"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another."

"If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads."

"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."

"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."

"Paris is always a good idea."

"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."

"To love truly means recognizing that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"An idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism — an essential principle for the reflective life."