"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught."

"My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known."

"The infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so that anyone who has not made this movement has no faith; for only in the infinite resignation does one become conscious of one's eternal val…"

"All communication is indirect communication."

"The true humorist does not want to be a humorist, but an earnest man."