Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

He does not weep who does not see.

The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.