To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

Become who you are. Make what only you can make.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.