"The surest sign of the truth is simplicity and clarity."

"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."

"Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings."

"Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit."

"To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business."

"Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."

"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken."

"If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul."

"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself."

"To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them."

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature."

"Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary."

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."

"All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."