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. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

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

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.