Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.