One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.