| Quotes |
Topic |
| Acceptance | Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. |
| Age | To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. |
| Books | Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. |
| Business | Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. |
| Courage | Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. |
| Cows | The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might To eat with apple-tart. |
| Dogs | You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. |
| Friendship | A friend is a present you give yourself. |
| Health | It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. |
| Life | There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. |
| Lying | The cruelest lies are often told in silence. |
| Morals | If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. |
| Nature | It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. |
| Politics | Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. |
| Government | Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. |
| Quiet | Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. |
| Travel | To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. |
| Weakness | You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? |
| Wife | Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life. |
| Wrongs | A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right. |
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