Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.

It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.

Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all.