Great Throughts Treasury

"Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life."

"I know of but one remedy against the fear of death that is effectual and that will stand the test of a sick-bed, or of a sound mind - that is, a good life, a clear conscience, an honest heart, and a well-ordered conversation; to carry the thoughts of dying men about us, and so to live before we die as we shall wish we had when we come to it."

"Life is easier to take than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable."

"There is a divinity that shapes our ends - but we can help by listening for Its voice."