If the person laughs well, they are a good person.

There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.