Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

war often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.

It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love.

Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.