They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.