A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

Those who laugh often never grow old.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.