One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

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

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.