Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

— Henry S. Haskins

Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.

— Henry S. Haskins

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.

— Henry S. Haskins

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

— Henry S. Haskins

Disappointments should be cremated not embalmed.

— Henry S. Haskins

If a man hears much that a woman says she is not beautiful.

— Henry S. Haskins

Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

— Henry S. Haskins

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses which is given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it in place of dust.

— Henry S. Haskins

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

— Henry S. Haskins

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

— Henry S. Haskins