To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.

Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.