Troubles

There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself

Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple

What worries you, masters you

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions

May your joys be as bright as the morning, your years of happiness as numerous as the stars in the heavens, and your troubles but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love

One forgives to the degree that one loves

If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time

May you see God's light on the path ahead when the road you walk is dark. May you always hear, even in your hour of sorrow, the gentle singing of the lark. When times are hard may hardness never turn your heart to stone, may you always remember when the shadows fall— you do not walk alone