I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.