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.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

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

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned