We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.

God finds himself by creating.