We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.