But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.