Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

To create something you must be something.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.