We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

Now is the accepted time.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

For we that live please must please to live.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.