When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.

honesty dies in selling itself.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...

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

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.