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.

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

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

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

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.

Some people act as if there were a penalty for carrying concealed troubles. They exhibit them at every opportunity, begging for sympathy, even condescending to accept pity. Such persons never realize that the very ones to whom they are complaining are often struggling under a burden greater than their own.