The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.