How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

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.