Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy. – Arthur Helps
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. – Arthur Helps

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy. – Arthur Helps
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. – Arthur Helps
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. – Arthur Helps
Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship to practically everything else in order to prove that language is so inordinately complicated that it is impossible in principle for people to talk. – Ronald W. Langacker (b.1942), Language and Its Structure, 1973
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I dont embrace trouble; thats as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for youll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it. – Oliver Wendell Holmes