Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

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