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One can only say 'God help us!' and plod on our weary way, cold and very miserable, though outwardly cheerful.

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far.

Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend to-morrow.

Presidential powers are not fixed but fluctuate, depending upon their disjunction or conjunction with those of Congress.

With all its defects, delays and inconveniences, men have discovered no technique for long preserving free government except that the Executive be under the law, and that the law be made by parliamentary deliberations.

It never seems to them that they have served enough; they have a fine impatience of their virtues.

There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted.

To ask to see some fruit of our endeavour is but a transcendental way of serving for reward; and what we take to be contempt of self is only greed of hire.

Again, in taking away our friends, death does not take them away utterly, but leaves behind a mocking, tragical, and soon intolerable residue, which must be hurriedly concealed.

All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it.

Before those who loved him, his memory shines like a reproach; they honour him for silent lessons; they cherish his example; and in what remains before them of their toil, fear to be unworthy of the dead.

The powers and the ground of friendship is a mystery; but, looking back, I can discern that, in part, we loved the thing he was, for some shadow of what he was to be.

Indeed, the ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

Love should run out to meet love with open arms.

Let it be enough for faith, that the whole creation groans in mortal frailty, strives with unconquerable constancy: Surely not all in vain.

Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

It may consist with perpetual failure, and find exercise in the continued chase.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Marriage is terrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

Difficult and embarrassing questions meet us at the threshold of this subject.

Human judgment is never unerring, and is rarely regarded as otherwise than wrong by the unsuccessful party in the contest.

Many friendships are formed by a community of sensual pleasures: all these will be cut off.

Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much, who enters life with the expectation of finding many friends.

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends.