To regret deeply is to live afresh.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.