Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption