“Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls
“Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end
“If you go to the married state, lead the man with tender hand. Much too strong women's power makes the husbands sour.
“The common happiness of two people is nothing more as two small, incised lines next to each other into infinity.
“May your joys be as bright as the morning, your years of happiness as numerous as the stars in the heavens, and your troubles but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
“Never seek to tell thy love, love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.