Banish the trifling, oh so trifling matter, by things more deserving of attention, and in a couple of months you will wonder why it upset you so.

it. It may be very absurd, nay very immoral, to be teased by trifles; but alas while you remain in the dust, reason as you may, it will annoy you; and there is no help for it, but to retire into a higher and grassier region, where the sultry road is visible from afar.

The only letters that can wait are those which provoke a hot answer.  

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;

Carlyle pointed out that crabbedness, pride, obstinacy, and affectation are, at bottom, want of strength – weakness.

Who are we, what is our insight into other men’s hearts, that we should foreclose the time of their growth;  that we should call for speed, when God, it may be, is patiently disengaging their minds from difficulties that we have never known;

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will….

we give nothing if we do not give love

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.