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

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?