Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

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

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

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.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.