Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Is love the sweetness of flowers?

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.