Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

In every person lies a beast and a giant. Be careful which of them you awaken to the world with your interactions with people.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return

The truth is, that the military people are so important to our country.

Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

[In Europe] they're really interested in you drinking their alcohol and eating their food and showing you around.

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.