I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.