There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.