Family not only needs to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also of those whom we’d give blood.
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but I hope, into a better shape.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
