Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Next Page »
