Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.

In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

In doubting we come to inquiry; by inquiry we perceive the truth.