So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Children are certainly too good to be true.

I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.