Questions show the mind’s range, and answers its subtlety.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Everything has its poetry. 94

The breath of the mind is attention 128

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Enseigner, c’est apprendre deux fois

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

The soul paints itself in our machines.

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a...