The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and it is the part of wisdom to know and love as many as you can, seeing each in the fairest possible light, and receiving from each the best that it has to give.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.