Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

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

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly