Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company.

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 beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

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

To win one s joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.