Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

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.

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

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.