People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.