There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.

A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.

Earth's crammed with Heaven.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.