 All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. |
| The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again. |
| It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. |
| 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. |
| There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late. |
| 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. |
| Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day. |
| We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded. |
| Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. |
| There is a great deal of human nature in man. |
| Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. |
| Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work. |
| A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London. |
| Do noble things, not dream them all day long. |
| 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. |
| Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us. |
| 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. |
| Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. |
| He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. |
| 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 never know. |
