The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.