Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.