Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

There will be nothing you may not aspire to; you will go everywhere, and you will find out what the world is — an assemblage of fools and knaves.

I belong to the opposition party, which is called life.

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.