Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

What peace, what love, what truth, what beauty, what happiness for all, what generous kindness for you and me, are here spread out!

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.