A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.