Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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

Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.