And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.