A flower blossoms for its own joy.
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.
It is awfully hard work doing nothing.