“Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.”
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France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
Always be a poet, even in prose.