Motives are causes experienced from within.

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.

Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.