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

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.