All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.