There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

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.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

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.