Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

fretting at trouble only doubles it.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.