Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.
Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.
Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.