No one suspects the days to be gods.

Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.