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.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.