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Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. If you want to be loved, be lovable. March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear. Fear is stronger than arms. The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love. Energy and persistence conquer all things. Laws die, books never. O golden Silence, bid our souls be still, and on the foolish fretting of our care lay thy soft touch of healing unaware! Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. Never think any oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old. Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. Hope is but the dream of those that wake. For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom. Never mind your happiness; do your duty. Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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