Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.