Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.