It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

Solitude is bearable only with God.

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.