An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

- Alain De Lille

Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

- Alain De Lille

Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us

- Alain De Lille

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

- Alain De Lille