“The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars.How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love!How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.”

“The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.”

“God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.”

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”

“Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself or more correctly being loved in spite of yourself.”

“When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.”