If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks