Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

happy people have got something to give to the world.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end.