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

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

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.