Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!