Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

When they are among us cats are angels

To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!

almost all novels are love stories.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

Not to love is to cease to live.