But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

But, God knows best, I concluded.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

Some days I don't know what is greater.My wisdom, or my stupidity.

Consistency also teaches us that some things do not change, though we may wish they would. Not everything bends to our personal preferences.

Never Let go your task or plan. Problems are opportunities that come in a package that is not pleasing.

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

Speaking of Sonya...I was thinking of something earlier. Something Wolfe said." "Why, Adrian. Were you paying attention after all?" "Don't start,Sage," he warned.(p 211)

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.