when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.