It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

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

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.