“All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.”

“The only love she inspires is the canine kind.”

“There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration.”

“Why, you love him! Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves.”

“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”

“Be kind to one another and seek beauty in all you do.”