It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

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

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.