Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.