Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.