We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

Children: a torment and nothing more.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.