“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.”

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”

“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”

“I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.”

“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”

“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”