Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.