I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?