Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.
He is not to them what he is to me.
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.