... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
Kindness is always fashionable.
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.