If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

We must have infinite faith in each other.