Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
—George Augustus Sala.
It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
—Dinah Maria Mulock.
So I will trudge with heart elate,
And feet with courage shod,
For that which men call chance and fate
Is the handiwork of God.
—Alice Cary.
“This world is a difficult world indeed,