Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.