Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?

I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart, and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.