A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.