A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Joy is the vital air of the soul.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

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