any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.

All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.