At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Love is moral even without legal marriage but marriage is immoral without love.

When one paints an ideal one does not need to limit one's imagination.

The genius of happiness is still so rare is indeed on the whole the rarest genius. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.