Gratitude

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the

Sometimes one pays most for things one gets for nothing.

She knows her way around the family of radioactive substances better than I know the way around my own family.

It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few individuals for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular assessment of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.

True to the kindred points of heaven and home!

To me the meanest flower that blows can give

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

No one would remember the Good

See, the conquering hero comes!

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,

So I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever.

Something attempted, something done,

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Presents, I often say, endear Absents.

If blood be the price of admiralty,

You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.

We pause to … recall what our country has done for each of us and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

My apple trees will never get across

But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

In the morning glad I see,