Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

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.