No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

... 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.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.