When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.