It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.

There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.

You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.