It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.
"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
Luck whines; labor whistles.
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.
Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don't care when I work or how I work.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.