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

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.

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

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.