If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.

When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.