Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong

When you are in love- everything is romantic

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

I can always forgive where I understand.

You cannot believe everything you hear

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

The body is the garden of the soul.