Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.