No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.