If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil!

Money is meant not for hoarding, but for using; the aim of life should be to use it in the right way - to spend as much as we can lawfully spend, both upon ourselves and others. And sometimes it is better to do this in our lifetime, when we can see that it is well spent, than to leave it to the chance spending of those that come after us.

... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.

Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.