[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Life is made up of compromises.
He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.
Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.