When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.