If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.