Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

One should not run on a new road.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.