To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.

For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!"

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.