Genius, Whether Locked Up In A Cell

These Tears Do Me Good, They Have Watered The Parched Place; Perhaps My Heart Will Grow Again There!

Simplicity Is The Most Difficult Thing To Secure In This World; It Is The Last Limit Of Experience And The Last Effort Of Genius.

Art Speaks Only To The Mind, Whereas Nature Speaks To All The Faculties.

I Loved [fairy Stories] So, And My Mother Weighed Down By Grief Had Given Up Telling Me Them. At Nohant I Found Mmes. D'ardony's And Perrault's Tales In Old Editions Which Became My Chief Joy For Five Or Six Years ... I've Never Read Them Since, But I Could Tell Each Tale Straight Through, And I Don't Think Anything In All One's Intellecutal Life Can Be Compared To These Delights Of Imagination.

Weeds Are Omnipresent; Errors Are To Be Found In The Heart Of The Most Lovable.