To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
Men can bear all things but good days.
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.