Life is not a matter of holding good cards

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

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.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.