My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

Life is the mistress to be wooed.

Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?