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

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.