The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.