At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.

Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.