Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds settle there, and soon birds have made a nest and are feeding their young among the blossoming water plants. Then the river rises and the earth is washed away. The birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; - such is our personality.

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.