No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.

A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

One must be something to be able to do something.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them