In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.

Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.

That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.