“The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.”

“I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.”

“The question is not resolved in you, and there lies your great grief, for it urgently demands resolution...Even if it cannot be resolved in a positive way, it will never be resolved in the negative way either--you yourself know this property of your heart, and therein lies the whole of its torment. But thank the Creator that he has given you a lofty heart, capable of being tormented by such a torment, 'to set your mind on things that are above, for our true homeland is in heaven.' May God grant that your heart's decision overtake you still on earth, and may God bless your path!”

“Even if it cannot be resolved in a positive way, it will never be resolved in the negative way either – you yourself know this property of your heart, and therein lies the whole of its torment. But thank the Creator that he has given you a lofty heart, capable of being tormented by such a torment.”

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

“The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.”