All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.