Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

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

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.