Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
Every life is its own excuse for being.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?
When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.