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.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

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.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Life would continue to exist and grow. Cause and effect still exist even where there is no time.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?

I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.

The reality is that China is a much stronger power today, because the economic dimension has been added to the military and strategic one.

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.