There is no thermometer for wants!

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!