Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.