the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried.

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.

Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people - as may be noticed of most young children - does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity, may grow into a fault, and do great harm, still, it never can do so much harm as that horrible laxity and profligacy of speech which is a the root of half the quarrels, cruelties, and injustices of the world.