“It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem, and in my esteem age is not estimable
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings.
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
“A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine