You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.

But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

A holy spirit lives within you.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.