The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.