"The human soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."

"Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings."

"Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being."

"Melancholy is the happiness of being sad."

"The rich man has his caviar, the poor man has his bread. The rich man has his fine wines, the poor man has his water. But both have the sun."