"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."
"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education."
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."