Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world. Jimmy Wales Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.