Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.