If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.