"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet instinctively looked round to see what other objects the world contains besides that which has been snatched from us."
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."
"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
"Delighted people are always delightful."