“We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.”

“But who ever heeds the voice of reason when love whispers, softly persuasive, in the other ear?”

“It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.”

“Sometimes love was to be grasped in any form and in any manner it was offered. And sometimes love must be given in the same way.”

“...it was inevitable I loved you - we were soul mates - for the same reason, we were fated to suffer...”

“[H]e never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.”