You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

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