I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.