“...a woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud.”

“When a small night-lamp alone illuminated our love-making, it became a very small, circular room which silently passed through nights humming with stars.”

“Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because, like that love, it glads the heart when the winter of adversity overtakes us, and when summer friends have deserted us.”

“Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.”

“A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist”

“Dwarfs can often do the work of giants when they are transformed by the almost magic power of great mental concentration.”

“Everyone has two natures. One wants us to advance and the other wants to pull us back. The one that we cultivate and concentrate on decides what we are at the end.”