The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

Vote in a national election.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.