To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.