The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.