“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

The more time i spent with him, the more i knew the feelings weren’t going away.

I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.

It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.

If your husband wants to lick the beaters on the mixer, shut them off before you give them to him.

The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.

It isn’t about love,” vee said. “it’s about fun.