One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."―Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

You see how I tryTo reach with wordsWhat matters mostAnd how I fail.

Someone who lives meaningfully for 30 years has lived a much longer Life than one who drifted through Life for 60 years.-RVM

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.

The whole of Christianity is comprised in three things--to believe, to love, and to obey Jesus. These are things, however, which we must be learning all our life.

I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. Otherwise, it's going to be a bad day. I also love Jelly Bellies. But that's bad. Don't tell my mom.

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others.

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.