If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry