One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.

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

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

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

A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!