Daily Quotes

I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.'

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.