the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

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