Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.

Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.

It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.

I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.