Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait.

...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

He too knows how to lose.

A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness.

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

now that she realized she had been waiting for him—she did not like that.