Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.

The heart has no wrinkles.

It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.

True friendship is never serene.

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

war often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.