"Be someone who genuinely seeks to understand,..." - Quote by Ralph Marston

“You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.”

“Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.”

“Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.”

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.”

“He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.”

“These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.”

“Observation is an old man's memory.”

“When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.”