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

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.