A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.