This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I read more

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

We can only learn to love by loving.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.

Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.