God bless us, every one!

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!

The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.

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

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.

Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm.

People who are filled with hate don't know how to handle love.

Writing to her, I was no longer lonely... I could tolerate anything as long as I had a notepad and a pen and could pour my heart out to her in these letters.

Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don't fit in.

The trees must breathe so I can breathe.

Everything we earn we need as a reserve.

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone".

When I walk home at night I don't have to worry about anything. But when a woman walks home at night she gotta think about a lot of different things.