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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.