If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?

It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.

It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

It is freezing fit to split a stone.

Death makes us all equal.

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.