He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.