Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.