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We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had read more
We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them.
Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.
Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if read more
Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.
Listen. Don't explain or justify.
Listen. Don't explain or justify.
Nature does not give to those who will not spend...
Nature does not give to those who will not spend...
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by read more
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious read more
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.