A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.