Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.
Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.
If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
Don't try to make me grow up before my time.
Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.