They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

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.

To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

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.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.