All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.

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

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

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

It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.