I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you.

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.

And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.