Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Make up your mind to be happy.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.