Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.