“Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.”

“The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed neither can be perfect without the other.”

“The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.”

“The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature, but it lacks something that it can only receive from outside and above itself. But when the light shines in it, it becomes in a manner transformed into light and seems to lose its nature in the splendor of a higher nature, the nature of the light that is in it.”

“A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security”

“It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.”