There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.