Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again!

that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

there are no nationalities in heaven.

Words express only the feelings we know already.

The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.