 Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. |
| It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. |
| It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. |
| Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. |
| There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. |
| The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. |
| Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. |
| I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. |
| The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. |
| Consequences are unpitying. |
| There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. |
| The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. |
| In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. |
| An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. |
| A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. |
| Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. |
| Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. |
| The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. |
| Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. |
| Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. |
