And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.