A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

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

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.