Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.

He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.

You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.