We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.