The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.