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

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.