“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”

“Hell is the inability to love.”

“—Si todo el mundo hiciera la guerra por convicción, no habría ninguna.”

“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.”

“A person can be miserable in a mansion and happy in a shack.”

“... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.”

“Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy.”