To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Children are all foreigners.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. The reward of a thing well done is to have it done. Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.