You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

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.