The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

The bourgeois are other people.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.

In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.

Art: to nudge truth along a little.

Add two letters two paris and it's paradise.

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.