the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.