Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

the urgent crowds out the essential.

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.