We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.