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

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

You have been the last dream of my soul.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Friendship? Yes Please.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmas time.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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

What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”

Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.

The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.