Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

What love commences can be finished by God alone.