move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

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.

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

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

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