The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.