Understanding brings control.

Understanding brings control.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation read more

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in read more

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.