Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner that, in the dinner, the sweets come last

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outside conditions

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world

To forget oneself is to be happy