The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
Heaven for climate hell for company.
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
The most useless are those who never change through the years.
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one has to do.
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.