We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

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

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.