Is the oak better than the acorn which is its fullness and completion?

To fill the hour, and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.