“Take the world nice and easy, and the world will take you the same.”

“Do not resent growing old, many are denied the privilege.”

“Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be looking for it all day.”

“Better be quarrelling than lonesome.”

“Two thirds of help is to give courage.”

“Every invalid is a physician.”

“He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more...”

“When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.”

“When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.”