Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.