“Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.”

“It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.”

“It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.”

“And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst.”

“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer”

“There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.”

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”