Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.