Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.