By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

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

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.