All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.