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

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Toleration is the best religion.

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Love is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.

If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness

Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.