All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

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

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.