Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

He [Finny] had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same q…

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one…

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.