It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.