Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.