It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward..

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys..

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing..

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity..

Not everyone can be an orphan..

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all..

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, d….

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars..

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say noth….

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age..

If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!.

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave..

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges tow….

The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth.….

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from whi….

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented..

Long only for what you have..

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the be….

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again..

Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such s….

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what dest….