No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.