“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one – they show one another off to the best advantage.”– William Hazlitt Related Quotes “By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.”– Helen Hunt Jackson “Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.”– Scott Nearing “The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.”– John Ruskin