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.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

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

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.