To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?

Ignorance is an underrated virtue, my lord.

Any time a secret group usurps the collective will of the people, it’s wrong. Period.

What we are now, we continue to be.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.

I have always loved the law. It is the very foundation of our great country. It's the exceptional foundation of America.

I think you should do in life what you think you'll make a real difference at. And generally, as a businessperson, you do things you don't really have experience in.

Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.

The creature born is the creature dying.