“If you have it (love), you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”

“Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first, loving not, hating not, just choosing so”

“The busy bee has no time for sorrow”

“The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind”

“Active evil is better than passive good”

“The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for”