The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.