Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.