It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

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.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.