One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access

Love, too, has to be learned.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.