It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

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

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.