I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

"What greater gift than the love of a cat."

"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."

"Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering."

"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong."

"Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

"I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world."