“Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.”

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Conscience is God present in man.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

It’s darkness without you, or didn’t you know? That the sunshine goes with you, wherever you go.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

I think perhaps I will always hold a candle for you – even until it burns my hand. And when the light has long since gone I will be there in the darkness holding what remains, quite simply because I cannot let go.

The darkest night always ends in morning light.

Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.