To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.