our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.