In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

One should not run on a new road.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.