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.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.