it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
Pray God, keep us simple.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.