It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

The less I understand life, the more I live it!

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.