Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.
The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.
Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.
One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.
Make your best thoughts into action.
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.