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

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.

Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

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

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.