Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.