To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sporting man

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples

Love prefers twilight to daylight

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise

Life is a great bundle of little things

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing