A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. – W. Somerset Maugham

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca