intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.