We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.