excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.