A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

И на съвършените съвършенството е несъвършено. Св. Иоан Лествичник

Parent must set an example to their children in love, in deeds and in conduct.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action nor motive to act.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.

Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.