“We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.”

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

One of the secrets to success is to have a healthy eating.

Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Jesus welcomes sinners and eats with them.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don’t eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.