It is never too late to be what you might have been. Read Summary
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. Read Summary
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. Read Summary
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. Read Summary
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. Read Summary
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. Read Summary
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. Read Summary
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. Read Summary
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. Read Summary
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. Read Summary
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? Read Summary
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. Read Summary
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. Read Summary
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. Read Summary
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. Read Summary
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. Read Summary
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. Read Summary
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. Read Summary
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? Read Summary
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. Read Summary