God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

fretting at trouble only doubles it.