If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.