"I have always been fond of children. I have always been fond of animals. I have always been fond of nature."

"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find — at the age of fifty, say — that a whole new life has opene…"

"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn."

"The truth, however ugly in itself, is always beautiful in its expression."

"The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering."