The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.
It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.
Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.