Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.