“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”

“We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.”

“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.”

“To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.”

“If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.”