More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.