If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.