Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.