Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.