“We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.”
“The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.”
“The most useless are those who never change through the years.”
“Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
“His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.”
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
“That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.”
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
“Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
“Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.”
“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.”
“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
“It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.”