It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow.The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense

The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.

If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.

Past tears are present strength.