There is a great deal of human nature in man.

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

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

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.