It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

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

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps