Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.