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Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.

Carlo got very fond of me--and his dog-love helped me through that first dreadful year after mother died, when I was alone.

This has become more difficult in a world where change and growth seem to tower beyond the control and even the judgment of men.

Am I equipped for nothing but to lie among the bed-clothes and keep warm?

Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration.

Death, like birth, is a mystery of nature; the one a compounding of elements, the other a resolution into the same.

Do not confound yourself by considering the whole of life, and by dwelling upon the multitude and greatness of the pains and troubles to which you may probably be exposed.

For death also is one piece of the business of life, and, here as elsewhere, it is enough to do well what comes to our hand.

If you are beaten off, return again to the effort, and content yourself that your conduct is generally such as becomes a man.

Love the art which you have learned, humble though it be, and in it find your recreation.

Others, who love the art that they have made their own, exhaust themselves with labouring at it unwashed and unfed.

Recollect all you have passed through, all that you have had strength to bear.

Tell over next all those you have known, one after the other: think how one buried his fellow, then lay dead himself, to be buried by a third.

The present moment is the same for all men, and their loss, therefore, is equal, for it is clear that what they lose in death is but a fleeting instant of time.

To the man who is penetrated with true principles, the shortest, the most common hint is a sufficient memorial to keep him free of sorrow and fear.

if you see that anything is within man's power, and part of his proper work, conclude that you also may attain to it

So few of us can understand what it takes to make a man—the man who will never say die; the man who will never give up

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal.

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Look back on these forebodings, not hastily but reluctantly made, and see how in every instance they have completely failed.

To the hopes of the hostile, the fears of the timid, and the doubts of the anxious actual experience has given the conclusive reply.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.