Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.