The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

Adversity is a good school.

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will into the silent sea of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.