a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.