Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

I was too young to know how to love her.

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

One only really sees with the heart.