To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

New happiness too must be learned to bear.

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.