The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will.

It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.

The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.

Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and it is the part of wisdom to know and love as many as you can, seeing each in the fairest possible light, and receiving from each the best that it has to give.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.