The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

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.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past.