Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.