The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

the world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!

How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.

The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?