There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.