Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.

For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.