This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.