Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.