| Quotes |
Topic |
| Ability | We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. |
| Adversity | A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure. |
| Calamity | Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. |
| Confidence | A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. |
| Eating | Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat; Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul, And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl; Serenely full the epicure would say, "Fate cannot harm me,--I have dined to-day." |
| Faith | It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. |
| Friendship | Good friends are good for your health. |
| Goals | Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. |
| Happiness | Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. |
| Home | A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. |
| Laughter | Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death. |
| Learning | He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. |
| Lemons | My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. |
| Letters | Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. |
| Literature | We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal. |
| Love | Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Thanks to Stace -Sydney Smith. |
| Marriage | Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. |
| Men and Women | A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. |
| Religion | Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. |
| Religion | The church is the great lost and found department. |
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