Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

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

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

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