“Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness.”

“Once a fate cannot be avoided, however horrible it might be, it loses something of its powers of dread”

“Passion makes us stronger than we are. Love makes us better than we are. Be passionate about the things you love.”

“How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive.”

“when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.”

“Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much”

“Besides, Mrs. Quesnt, did it never occur to you that we are not changing at all-that rather, we are simply becoming more ourselves?”