There Are Certain Persons For Whom Pure

Few Are They Who Have Never Had A Chance To Achieve Happiness- And Fewer Those Who Have Taken That Chance.

The Minds Of Different Generations Are As Impenetrable One By The Other As Are The Monads Of Leibniz.

Writing Is A Difficult Trade Which Must Be Learned Slowly By Reading Great Authors; By Trying At The Outset To Imitate Them; By Daring Then To Be Original; By Destroying One's First Productions.

Two Human Beings Anchored To One Another Are Like Two Ships Shaken By Waves; Their Carcases Collide With One Another And Creak.

Like A Bird, When His Cage Is Opened, Stays On His Perch, Dazzled By Freedom, The Postponed Traveler Does Not See That His Cage, With Its Bars Of Anxiety, It Is Open.