It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.