It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

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

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

To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.