Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.