First make your arrangements, then trust in heaven; and in no case worry.
—Prof. Jowett.
“Hold thy peace or say something better than silence.”
“Friend, all the world’s a little queer, excepting thee and me; and sometimes I think thee a trifle peculiar.”
We live by our enthusiasm and our exaltations. Our sympathies are our strength. Our interests are our magnetisms, and are transmuted into our working capital.
—Lilian Whiting.
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
(Said of Lincoln.)
—Emerson.
He is all truth in his words, and justice in his actions, and if the whole world should disbelieve his integrity, dispute his character, and question his happiness, he would neither take it ill in the least, nor turn aside from that path that leads to the aim of life, toward which he must move, pure, calm, well prepared—and with perfect resignation in his fate.