The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself - a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three.

We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

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.

No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

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