A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.
Labor is life; thought is light.
Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition
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.