Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

---

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

---

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

---

You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

---

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

---

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

---

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

---

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

---

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

---

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

---