Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?

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.

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.