When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
In every parting there is an image of death.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.