Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.