The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.
I have not laughed since I married.
Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate.
. . . alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.
I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions.
A man of fashion does not like to be reckoned poor, no more than he likes to be reckoned unhappy. We none of us endeavor to be happy, Sir, but merely to be thought so; and for my part, I had rather be in a state of misery, and envied for my supposed happiness, than in a state of happiness, and pitied for my supposed misery.
Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.
Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood - and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.
I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.
I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about.
I would rather be trampled by thousands of children than touch a spider.