Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. Love is trembling happiness. Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love. Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death. | 
