Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.