Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.