An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.