Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.