No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear; But, grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
There are men who are happy without knowing it.
We are all of us richer than we think we are.
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.
Life is hard. Next to what?
Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.
It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
No one is satisfied with his fortune, or dissatisfied with his intellect.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
Good, to forgive; Best, to forget.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
