If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

God made the water but men made the wine.

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.