The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Some people are proud of their humility.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.