Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

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

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

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

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.