There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.