“In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.”

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”

“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.”

“It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.”

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”

“If there was no faith there would be no living in this world.”

“There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.”