"For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad."

"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."

"We do not remember the passing of hours, but the resonance of moments — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: I will try once more tomorrow. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was."

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."