Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

So this is happiness, that journeyman.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.