Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Do noble things do not dream them all day long.
Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.
There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will nev...
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again Sweet wife. No never come over again.
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.
There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper spea...