Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.