Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
Upon awakening, let the words Thank You flow from your lips, for this will remind you to begin your day with gratitude and compassion.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.
When one wanted one’s interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people’s tricks.
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.
