The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.