Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
A well begun is half ended.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.