There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.