...chance may do anything.

Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.

Without God all things are permitted.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

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

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.