A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good to which we are entitled, we must give of that which we have.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good to which we are entitled, we must give of that which we have.
Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise, one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor.
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
