Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.