“Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.”

“…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans”

“Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul”

“It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.”

“Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.”

“Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.”

“Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.”