| We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. |
| What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. |
| When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep. |
| Some folks wear their halos much too tight. |
| It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. |
| The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. |
| Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint. |
| All that we behold is full of blessings. |
| On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. |
| Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. |