Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.