I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

But people will laugh at all sorts of things.

The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.