Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.