“…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.”
“True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.”
“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
“I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.”
“it is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.”
“Therefore he who would administer the kingdom, honouring it as he honours his own person, may be employed to govern it, and he who would administer it with the love which he bears to his own person may be entrusted with it.”