Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born of doubt and scruple, has at least the advantage of rendering all the different shades of my thought, and of being sincere. If it were to become terse, affirmative, resolute, would it not be a mere imitation?

At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.

Hope is only the love of life.

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

Every life is a profession of faith.