People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.