No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
Grumbling is the death of love.
We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
All that is not prose passes for poetry.
Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.
Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.
You cannot serve God and Mammon.
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.
Strong people don't need strong leaders.