There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.

[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.