Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.