Who understands much, forgives much.

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.