Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.