Resignation is the timid sign of courage

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.