Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

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

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.