It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Youth is the only thing worth having.