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

Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.