Nothing recalls the past so potently as a smell.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial.

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.