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

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.

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.

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.