"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"Our scars make us know that our past was for real."

"It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble."

"You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."

"I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself."

"Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does."