One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.