“Drop the subject when you cannot agree; there is no need to be bitter because you know you are right.”
It is not only a part of the wisdom of happiness, but it is absolutely essential to the conditions of any true work in the world, to so live that one may not be too greatly affected by the attitude of other people. A man’s life is, after all, primarily between God and himself.
—Lilian Whiting.
Get your distaff ready, and God will send you flax.
—Mary A. Livermore’s favorite proverb.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable we have, and therefore should be secured, because they seldom return again.
—Locke.
The little worries that we meet each day
May be as stumbling-blocks across our way,
Or we may make them stepping-stones to be