Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.

...you found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell...

Someone suddenly had direct, unabashed access to my heart.

I know what my strengths are, and I know what my not strengths are.

The gondola of London [a hansom].

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.

An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.

When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.