This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

Love, too, has to be learned.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.