Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

Many find their heart when they have lost their head.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?