I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping..

It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is so far from all that! Who….

My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves..

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades..

[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing ….

You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an ….

Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the bedroom, les livres ….

One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from l….

Those who look for reasons to hate miss opportunities to love..

Tis the ignorant who boast..