It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.