Pure loving feelings take you nearer to truth than when you see only defects.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.