The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark

Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other

Life is a voyage

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved