We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.