Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

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