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.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.