Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

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.

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

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.