If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.

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The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by...

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by...

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known:...

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known:...

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it...

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it...

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the...

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the...

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an...

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an...

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always...

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always...

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is...

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is...

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it...

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it...

Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine...

Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine...

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering....

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering....

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the...

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the...

Happiness is like perfume: You can't give it away without getting a little on yourself.

Happiness is like perfume: You can't give it away without getting a little on yourself.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in...

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in...

Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that...

Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that...

Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home...

Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home...

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish...

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish...

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next...

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next...

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death....

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death....