Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped — to reach it. For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.