- You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

- No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

- The true traveller is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down much of the time.

- Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: 'It’s four o’clock ... At five I have my abyss.'

- Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

Colette