The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

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

The color of truth is gray.