A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.
Excess always carries it's own retributions.
Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
Youth without faith is a day without sun.
There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.