After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.