Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.