The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

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

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