To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
All say, How hard it is that we have to die – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life…all of our life.
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
If a man’s eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.
Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
The memory of a day like today reminds me to hold the ones I love that much tighter, that much longer… Take that much more time to be present and to feel the blessing of another day…
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
