Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.