We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

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.

The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.

We are the heirs of the ages; but the estate is entailed, as large estates frequently are, so that while we inherit the earth, the great round world which is God's footstool, we have only the use of it while we live and must pass it on to those come after us. We hold the property in trust and have no right to injure it or to lessen its value. To do so is dishonest, stealing from our heirs their inheritance.