Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy, and not many of those.
Ah, if he could only die temporarily!
You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
You can’t pray a lie – I found that out.
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Work! work! and God will work with us!
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
When we do not know a person – and also when we do – we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business – there is no other way.
When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.
