If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the read more

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.

Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of read more

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.