Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.