It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.