One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.