The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.