“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.”

“But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.”

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“I should have based my judgement upon deeds and not words.”

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”