A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

One should not run on a new road.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

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

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.