But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

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

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.