Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. |
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. |
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. |
Every day we delay this decision, that's another day we don't have extra officers on the road, |
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. |
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. |
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. |
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people. |
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. |
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. |
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among the roots, the maiden-fair Wine scented and poetic soul of the capacious salad bowl. |
Nothing made by brute force lasts. |
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. |
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock in a thunderstorm. |
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. |