The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.