The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.