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

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

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

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.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

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