Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.