“ Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. ”

“ There are many victories worse than a defeat. ”

“ Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. ”

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

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

“ But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ”

“ Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. ”

“ There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ”

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

“ Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. ”