Everything one does in life even love occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
Blessed is the influence of one true loving human soul on another.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will...
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children...
Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It’s curative....
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
