“Once an ill can be patiently born it is robbed of its poison if not its pain.”

“No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.”

“Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.”

“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”

“A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.”

“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”

“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.”