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.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

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

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.