You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear; When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear.
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to step back and see where the wife was wrong.
Right now I have enough money to last me the rest of my life - unless I buy something.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
Time is that in which all things pass away.
The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.
You don't just luck into things ... you build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
When thou doest alms, do not let thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.
Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
The wind that blows, the ship that goes And the lass that loves a sailor.