To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

A true friend is forever a friend.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love…

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.