I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.