The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.