part 4

I shall not feel my long separation from you, if I find that my absence has been of no injury to you, and that you have grown in goodness and knowledge, as well as stature. But, ah! How much I will suffer on my return, if the reverse has occurred! You enter all my thoughts, into all my prayers; and on you, in part will depend whether I shall be happy or miserable, as you know how much I love you. You must do all in your power to save me pain.
Robert E. Lee

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sidney J. Harris

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
Margo Kaufman

To accept favor is to sell one's freedom
Syrus

Wrinkles meerly indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

Victories that are easy are cheap
H.W. Beecher

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Jefferson

But out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one miss whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth or race.
Booker T. Washington

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

It is seldom that anything is permanently gained by holding back a fact.
Booker T. Washington

If there is a person whom you dislike, that is the one of whom you should never speak.
Cecil

He who begins many things finishes nothing.
C. Simmons