It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.