Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.