happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.

It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.

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

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.