Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.

For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.