Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.