“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”

“To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.”

“I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in the most profound activity. Whether our actions themselves, even if they do...”

“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”

“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organi...”