Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes.

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.