Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility