The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.