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

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.

An author departs; he does not die.

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.

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.

Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people - as may be noticed of most young children - does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.