He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog, child, or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.
To convert an hourly wage to an approximate yearly salary, double the wage and change the decimal to a comma.
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.
Though Love be deeper, Friendship is more wide.
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
It does not matter much what a man hates, provided he hates something.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.
The present is the blocks with which we build.
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
Wealth makes everything easy - honesty most of all.