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

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

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

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

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.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.