If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
From Robert Louis Stevenson
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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