Have confidence in everything you do, even when you eat sausages at a quick lunch next door to the dog-catcher.Hell is not paved with good intentions. Hell is paved with sanctimonious pretensions.
When you get up, where does your lap go? When you love, where does your hate go?
After you have walked the floor all night trying to get the baby to sleep, you can at least be thankful that you do not live in Greenland where the nights are six months long.
Avoid hot words in anger, you might tell the truth. A Chicago father thrashed his son for being out late at night. Then added: "When I was your age my father would not let me be out after dark." The boy answered: "Then you must have had a devil of a father." The old man came back hotly: "I had a damn sight better father than you have."
Fretting is like a rocking chair, you can do a great deal of agitating in it without getting anywhere.
Do not kick at the squirrel that runs up to you in the park; it may be only mistaken identity--he thought he saw a nut.
Children radiate truth, they intuitively feel and express it. Elsie had been bad and her mother sent her upstairs to talk it over with God. After an hour she came down stairs singing; her mother asked her what God had said to her. "O," she replied, "God said, Great Scott, Elsie, don't feel badly, there are a lot of worse people in this house than you are."
