There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

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.

The book didn't want to be copied?I should introduce it to the house that doesn't want any occupants.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up - 'cause they're looking for ideas.

You see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.

The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.