“Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, 'That my heart has bled.'”
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“There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.”
“Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go.”
“No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.”
“There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself.”
“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”
“Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.”
“Old age has its pleasures, which though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”
“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and having people in them, acting.”
“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass.”
“If a man could half his wishes he would double his troubles.”
“For he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.”
“Deal with him as a truant, if you will, but claim him, keep him, call him brother still!”
“Hospitality should be accidental, spontaneous, and impulsive, not pre-arranged and calculated.”