True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

On ne sait jamais! One never knows!

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.