Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.