In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.