Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.