... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

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.

One should not run on a new road.

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

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.

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.