A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.