The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Kindness is always fashionable.

Old age is the verdict of life.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.