It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.