To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.