Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

Speak little, do much.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.