Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

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.

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

When they are among us cats are angels