Be happy without picking flaws.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.