“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”

“What is the part of wisdom? To dream with one eye open; to be detatched from the world without being hostile to it; to welcome fugitive beauties and pity fugitive sufferings, without forgetting for a moment how fugitive they are.”

“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.”

“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.”

“A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”

“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.”

“There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.”