Colors are the smiles of nature.

It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

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

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.