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

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion.

Darkness is dawn not yet born.

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.