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

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.