“Great courage was required to engage in such an adventure. But George was in love and Freeheart was faithful. And as the most delightful of poets says“What cannot Friendship guided by sweet Love?”

“...the adventure of the soul among the masterpieces.”

“In art as in love, instinct is enough. ”

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”

“All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.”

“Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.”

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”