Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

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

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.