When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end of lives that are at all prolonged, even in old lovers who have lived for one another, in old friends bound by the closest ties of mutual sympathy, who, after a certain year, cease to make the necessary journey or even to cross the street to see one another, cease to correspond, and know that they will communicate no more in this world.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.