A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.