“I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.”

“Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.”

“There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.”

“Were it not better to forgetThan but remember and regret”

“Is there notA tongue in every star that talks with man,And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.”

“Life is short. Live to the fullest as you will not know when you will see the sun rise again.”

“I cannot have you as my mistress. I though I could, but I can't. I want you for more than that. I want you for life, waking and sleeping. You see what happens when I let you out of my sight? This. It won't do, I tell you. You'll have to accept me because I can't live without you. So there.”