Young people -it is obvious -cannot achieve such a relationship, but they can, if they understand their life properly, grow up slowly to such happiness and prepare themselves for it. They must not forget, when they love, that they are beginners, bunglers of life, apprentices in love- must learn love, and that like all learning wants peace, patience, and composure.

The demands which the difficult work of love makes upon our development are more than life-size, and as beginners we are not up to them. But if we nevertheless…

Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not…

Love is at first not anything that means merging, giving over and uniting with another (for what would a union be of something unclarified and unfinished, stil…

There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, 'The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' …

There are lessons to life That the lovers got to learn There are corners out there You know they're waitin' somewhere And you've got to be prepared to turn The…