Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? Even with her altered complexion and face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulcher, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt, notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful. Upon this I pondered with undiminished perplexity.

As I said to Speedicut, it's hell in the diplomatic.