Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us..

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring..

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations..

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds..

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them..

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself..

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves..

Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them..

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention..

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path..

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself..

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and….

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task..

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can n….

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else..

Whither should we aim if not towards God?.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told..

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life..