Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

But facts are facts and flinch not.

Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.

Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,- not by his performance; which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances: the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be,- not are, nor will be.