A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring or ...

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively ...

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.