[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.