Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

No one can build her security on the nobleness of another person

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.

One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.

No one person knows much more about writing than another. I expect that when people think they know anything about it, then their case is hopeless.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.