The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.