Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.
The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.
Petty laws breed great crimes.