It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.