Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.