The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

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

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.