All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.
Those who have been made great have first suffered.
A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.
The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.
each separate flower has a magic all its own.
Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.