He who demands little gets it.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.