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.

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.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.