He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.