Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

It's a long time since I drank champagne.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.