This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for h….

Kindness is always fashionable..

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances a….

A good message will always find a messenger..

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down..

Men can bear all things but good days..

The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you..

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest..

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty..

... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations ….

Love, like destiny, loves surprises..

In any adversity gold can find friends..

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop o….

Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life woul….

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing ….

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our fri….

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse..

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others..

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul..

Forethought spares afterthought..

One should not run on a new road..