That I may reach that happy time / The kindly gods I pray, / For are not ducks and pease in prime / Upon the last of May?

Life is the soul's nursery - Its training place for the destinies of eternity.

As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again, and it will succumb.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better especially richer or more fashionable than he is.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.

A smiling face often hides an aching heart; I promise you mine did in that coat, and not my heart only, but other regions. There is a skeleton in every house.

If a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relation to do the business.