Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.