To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.