To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.