“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it
“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole
“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together
“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself
“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people
“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful
“If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world
“The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
“Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people
“We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves
“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
“If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.