The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.