Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.