Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.

The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.

Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.