“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

When you drink of the water, don’t forget the spring from which it flows.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Reflect upon your present blessings.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Never,” said my aunt, “be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

Least said, soonest mended.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapoint­ments.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.