Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.