Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
You always get exaggerated notions of things you don’t know anything about.[On se fait toujours des idées exagérées de ce qu’on ne connaît pas.]
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.