“Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country
“If you go to the married state, lead the man with tender hand. Much too strong women's power makes the husbands sour.
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined, lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
“Only love is not enough any more for remaining nearness. Today you need all your mind for a wonderful marriage. Stop in our hectic times deliberately and daily getting power only for both of you
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it