True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.