Life is the mistress to be wooed.

These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.

Let your best be for your friend.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born