If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.

Where there are two people, there is untruth.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.