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

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.