I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving — we must sail sometimes with the wind and som… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The great thing in this world, is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!