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.

we are so scornful when we are young!

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.

the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough.

Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

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

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