“So much simplicity with so much understanding — so mild, and yet so resolute — a mind so placid, and a life so active.”

“I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.”

“What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!”

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

“Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!”

“The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.”

“I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!”