A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at. But truth is something else again.

They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.

Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.

We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.

Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.