It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.