To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.