“Reflect upon your present blessings.”

To a young heart everything is fun.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Yes. He is quite a good fellow – nobody’s enemy but his own.

I am what you designed me to be. I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.

But the mere truth won’t do. You must have a lawyer.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

You have been the last dream of my soul.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Ah, love, – you are my unutterable blessing…..I am in full sunshine now.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.