Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.