The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

Man is bound to lie about himself

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.