All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
The difference breeds hatred.
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.