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.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.