There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.

All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

Pedestals are always lonely.