Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

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

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.

Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

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.