Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.
I am no bird and no net ensnares me.
Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.
Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children’s mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!
No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.
Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.
Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you; I would not trouble your faith; you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I.
The shadows are as important as the light.
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.
Who has words at the right moment?
Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.
Let your performance do the thinking.
Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.
You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.
You – you strange – you almost unearthly thing! – I love as my own flesh. You – poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are – I entreat to accept me as a husband.