It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

The seasons run with swift feet.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.