"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."

"The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most."

"The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life."

"When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves."