We never remember days, only moments.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

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

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.