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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?