It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.
The victor is often vanquished by his own success.
Dare to be wrong and to dream.
Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.