Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.

The future enters into us in order to transform itself in us long before it happens.

Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.

Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?