A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

He does not weep who does not see.

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.