My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

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.

. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.