Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

Men can bear all things but good days.

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

the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

In any adversity gold can find friends.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.