The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

God sends the cold according to the coat.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition