Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.