What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.