No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.

The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore.

Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.